One New Cuff, One New Ring, Both By Wings

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All right, I promised these yesterday, but these descriptions don't write themselves, and yesterday was a mess on multiple fronts. But they are posted now: introducing one new cuff, one new ring, both by Wings.

The cuff is shown above; it's called Sweetgrass Sky, and I love it beyond reason. Dual-strand band of heavy-gauge pattern wire in an Art Deco-ish braided design, topped by that impossible rectangle of ultra-high-grade Black Web Kingman turquoise. [Some from the same area, also ultra-high-grade, is known as "Red Web," and in certain lights, you can see hints of red underlying the inky black.] The ingot blossoms are all hand-made. You can read the full description here.

The ring is smaller, but no less amazing:

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The ring is made with an old, OLD oval of natural American turquoise from Wings's private collection, so old that we think it might be one in the lot his late father gave him many decades ago. The stone was labeled "Dry Creek," which seems unlikely until you realize 1) how old it truly is, 2) that it's ever so slightly paler than in the photo, a shade between robin's egg and sky, and 3) that while Dry Creek now is ice-blue with lots of webbing, OLD material from that area was sometimes exactly this shade, with only faint webbing. So while I will not go bail for it being Dry Creek, because it's been too many decades to prove it? It is actually more than possible. This one has a heavy-gauge sterling silver pattern-wire band that's split and spread by hand to hold the bezel in the embrace of an Eye of Spirit. It makes resizing impossible (this is a 6), but for an additional $100 fee, Wings will create a whole new band in whatever size you need. This one is called Petals of Sky, and you can read its full description here.

As always, Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. And also as always, sales are very much needed (the last two weeks have been extraordinarily costly with more expense to come, and we still need to bring in sales to see us through August and the rest of the year, and to begin prepping for the eventual drilling of the new well, because as surely as the pandemic has killed our sales, the drought has been killing the land; selling the cuff would cover last week and this), so shares of the site links are much appreciated.

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